This activity is actually a continuation of the first class I did with these first graders when they learned to mix colors and make a color wheel . I wanted them to learn that there are even more colors

Today I decided to try observational drawings with the girls. I collected a bunch of items from around my house as you see above and told the girls to each choose what they would like to draw. Observational

It turns out that some of the girls are having a hard time with some of the drawing exercises I have been giving them. To lighten things up I decided to start this week with a new way of using the watercolors

I saw this great idea on Pinterest with tape and acrylic paints. (pictured below)
I wanted to something similar in our art camp with little kids as that activity is more for older kids or adults.
So we

There are times when you might want to create your own papers to use for collages.
We were actually doing these paper designing activities to make papers for an Eric Carle activity but, they can be done

There are so many ways to do stamping with kids. There are of course, the many pre cut stamps that you find in the crafts stores and catalogs and then there are the homemade ones .
These stamps were made